Word: straitly
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...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari describes a mountebank monk's visit to a small German town. Apparently Dr. Caligari wishes to exhibit his somnambulist at the town's fair. But a series of unexplained murders follows their arrival. At last Dr. Caligari is caught and led off in a strait-jacket. This story, however, is told by a young man in an institution. When the director of the institution walks among his patients after the story, he himself appears to be Dr. Caligari. Recognizing him, the patient screams, "You are Dr. Caligari!" and he too is led off in a strait...
Sullivan's exuberant geometric and floral motifs are now long out of fashion. But for the present generation of modern architects too long imprisoned in a strait-jacket of glassy steel and aluminum purism, his concern for structure, color and decoration today places Sullivan, who died almost forgotten in 1924, once again at the center of tomorrow's architectural aspirations...
...novel about Malaya, in which the nicest white character is a British cop whose job it is to run down Communists. The People Inside. The book's narrator is "Suyin," who works in the big general hospital at Johore Bahru (as Author Han Suyin once did). Across the strait lies Singapore, close behind lies the jungle. And in the jungle are the Communists. As in A Many-Splendored Thing, the author finds many excuses for the Communists. This time, it is the stupidity and repression of the British, the refusal to give the Malayan Chinese a bigger stake...
...Harding insists that everything Bunyan wrote is grist for the analyst, and especially his slips of the pen. since they are not accidents, but the certain results of subconscious desires. Example: Bunyan wrote of the "straight and narrow" path (instead of the Biblical spelling, strait). This means, says Analyst Harding, that Bunyan was subconsciously rebellious against the strait and narrow path of Puritanism, perhaps even the very practice of Christianity itself...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...